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also shows the current status of expenditures for the agencies that received funds. Most of the funding from FY2012 and FY2013 has been completely expended, and staff is generally satisfied that most FY2014 projects are progressing satisfactorily. Several projects have not yet invoiced the City for funds but this is not necessarily cause for concern and staff anticipates that all of these small grants will be expended by the end of the current fiscal year. The above recommended programming (plus $53,784 for program administration) equals $606,073 which matches total funding available shown in the table on page 2. II. COMMUNITY GRANT (CG) PROGRAM As noted earlier, the City streamlined its annual grant process several years ago to combine funding from CDBG, HOME, Lower Income Housing Funds, and City Grant General Funds into a single Housing and Human Services Grant (HHSG) program. The arts/culture and youth components of the former City Grant program were recombined to form the new "Community Grant" (CG) program. For FY 2015-16, $42,425 is available for arts/culture projects and $50,454 is available for youth projects for a total allocation amount of $92,879. This includes a new annual allocation of $80,000 ($40,000 for each program) plus $12,879 in unspent funds from the prior year that can be carried over and reallocated to new projects. CG grant awards are typically limited to a maximum of$7,500. Information on the CG program was provided at two regional pre-application informational workshops held on December 2 and 9, 2014, in Livermore and Pleasanton which also discussed information about Pleasanton's HHSG program and similar grant programs offered by the cities of Livermore and Dublin. In response, nine (9) applications were received in the arts/culture category with a total aggregate request of $57,057 and eleven (11) applications were received in the youth category with a total aggregate request of $78,349. The 20 CG applications received are listed in Table B of Attachment 1. Arts/culture applications were reviewed by the Civic Arts Commission at its meeting of March 2, and its minutes are included as Attachment 4. Youth applications were reviewed by the Youth Commission at its meeting of March 11, and its minutes are included as Attachment 5. At each meeting, specific agency representatives made a presentation and addressed Commission questions. All agencies attended their designated Commission meeting. After reviewing all applications and presentations, the Commissions discussed the merits of each project and determined funding levels for 19 of the 20 applications (one application in the youth category was not recommended for funding). The results of this process, including summaries and recommendations for each project, are detailed in Table B of Attachment 1. The $92,789 recommended for the Community Grant (CG) program plus the proposed $606,073 for the Housing and Human Services Grant (HHSG) program discussed earlier results in a total of$698,952 proposed for the two grant programs combined. Page 8